Libyans cheered the fate of ousted dictator Moammar Gadhafi into the early hours of Friday after his death in what Libya's transitional prime minister described as a crossfire that followed his arrest by revolutionary forces.
CNN national security contributor Fran Townsend on the significance of the arrest.
Samir Khan was proud to be a traitor. In a way, he was among the most dangerous of al Qaeda terrorists. By turning his back on the country he grew up in, he gained credibility and coupled that with his intimate knowledge of Western culture to become a driving force behind a powerful al Qaeda propaganda machine.
Ten years after the 9/11 tragedy, the world is a much different place.
Moammar Gadhafi's Bab al-Aziziya compound is the heart of his nearly 42-year rule, a symbol of his defiance of the West.
Get an inside look of the Gadhafi compound after rebels seized control during a battle.
Experts Fran Townsend and Phil Mudd give a profile of attackers like the one in Norway.
Night after night, day after day, NATO aircraft have hammered presidential compounds in Tripoli, Libya. I have walked over the piles of rubble.
The United States and Yemen are taking on Islamic militants on the land and from the air amid fears that al Qaeda is exploiting the political chaos and leadership vacuum engulfing the unstable and impoverished Arabian Peninsula country.
The United States has adopted numerous measures to make itself safer since al Qaeda slammed planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.
When coalition missiles slammed into a suspected command and control building on a sprawling military complex on the outskirts of Tripoli on Sunday, they were hitting within an area considered to be Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's main headquarters and official residence.
Fran Townsend weighs in on a California pilot's video that reveals apparent shortcomings in security.
CNN's Brian Todd looks at reported food poisoning terror plots targeting restaurants and salad bars.
A former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says in a new book that while Bill Clinton was in the White House, a key component of the president's nuclear launch protocol went missing.
We watch all the Sunday political shows so you don't have to. The best soundbites from September 12, 2010.
Gen. Stanley McChrystal has issued an apology for a controversial Rolling Stone profile. President Obama needs to accept it and focus on winning the war in Afghanistan.
CNN contributor Fran Townsend looks at why Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair left his post.
President Obama soon will nominate a new director of national intelligence, a position originally envisioned as overseer of the entire U.S. intelligence community.
Dennis Blair, the president's top intelligence adviser, announced his resignation after 16 months of power struggles, politics and personality clashes.
The no-fly list is supposed to help keep terrorists off planes, so when the Times Square car bombing suspect was able to board a flight anyway, it put the process under immense scrutiny. The government has already made changes to the system.
A United flight from Washington to Denver was marred by an incident involving a passenger.
We are now five days away from the attempted terrorist attack to blow up Northwest Airlines Flight 253 to Detroit, Michigan. We are learning more each day about the multiple failures in our security and intelligence system that preceded that attack.
CNN's Kara Finnstrom looks at how dogs are trained to sniff out explosives at airports and other terrorist targets.
How could a man who allegedly had explosives hidden in his underwear have been allowed to board a plane headed for the United States?
Two people without invitations crashed President Obama's first White House state dinner, the U.S. Secret Service said Wednesday.
Eight Somali-American men from Minnesota are charged with federal terror-related counts involving al-Shabaab, a Somali group considered a terror organization by the United States, officials said Monday.
In his new book, former Homeland Secretary Tom Ridge says Bush officials pressured him to raise the terror alert.
Former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge says he successfully countered an effort by senior Bush administration officials to raise the nation's terror alert level in the days before the 2004 presidential vote.
A former Bush administration official said she thinks former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge's recent charges that politics were behind raising the terror level in 2004 were "personally motivated."
Ridge bombshell
updated: Fri Aug 21 2009 13:13:00
Tom Ridge says politics may have played a role in threat level decisions in the Bush administration. CNN's Ed Henry reports.
Maj. Gen. Stanley McChrystal's special ops background may hurt his chance for confirmation. CNN's Barbara Starr reports.
Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal is a man of many secrets.
Former Homeland Security Adviser Frances Townsend reacts to the NYC photo op.
Security at the G-20 summit in London, England, is tight as protesters fill the streets. CNN anchor Kiran Chetry spoke Wednesday with Frances Townsend, who was Homeland Security adviser under the Bush administration, about the security. Townsend now is a national security contributor on CNN.
The Washington Post recently reported that Gen. Jim Jones, President Obama's national security adviser, is reviewing plans to reorganize the White House National Security and Homeland Security councils.
The Saudi Justice Ministry Tuesday issued a "clarification" of a court's handling of a rape case and the increased punishment -- including 200 lashes --meted out to the victim.
Townsend resignsupdated: Tue Nov 20 2007 16:13:00
CNN's Suzanne Malveaux reports President Bush's top terrorism adviser is resigning to go work in the private sector.
President Bush's top adviser on homeland security is stepping down after 4½ years on the job, the White House said Monday.
Terror politicsupdated: Mon Sep 10 2007 07:18:00
Just before the sixth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, CNN's Bill Schneider looks at the politics of the war on terror.
Osama bin Laden may be grabbing headlines with a new videotape, but he is "virtually impotent," said President Bush's homeland security adviser.
U.S. forces should go into Pakistan to rout al Qaeda from the safe haven it has found in the mountains on the border with Afghanistan, a co-chairman of the Iraq Study Group said.
So let's cut to the chase on the new National Intelligence Estimate: Does it show America is safer today than it was on September 10, 2001 -- or not?
Bush dusts off some old intelligence to renew his warnings about Osama bin Laden. But Iraqis will greet the news with a shrug
Fortune: Question authorityupdated: Thu Jun 08 2006 08:59:00
Frances Fragos Townsend Assistant to the President for homeland security and counterterrorism
A disease pandemic could have more impact than a terrorist attack or a hurricane and might be comparable in scope to a war, a new White House report says.
Shortly after 9/11, al Qaeda began planning to use shoe bombers to hijack a commercial airplane and fly it into the tallest building in Los Angeles, California, President Bush said Thursday.
President Bush has tapped homeland security adviser Frances Townsend to lead an internal inquiry into the administration's response to Hurricane Katrina, but leading Democrats renewed calls for an independent probe.
President Bush on Wednesday directed the creation of a new National Security Service within the FBI, one of 70 recommendations on improving the intelligence community he endorsed from the White House WMD commission.
President Bush values debate over the Patriot Act but still intends to seek congressional reauthorization of the entire act, President Bush's homeland security adviser said Thursday.
One of my bosses asked me a stumper this week. Who, she wanted to know, was the one person in the U.S. government in charge of going after Osama bin Laden and other terrorists?
Bush administration officials used Sunday's talk shows to defend last week's heightened security alerts in three cities and to underscore the administration's focus on terror threats.
Intelligence found in Pakistan suggests that suspected al Qaeda operatives in that country contacted an individual or individuals in the United States in the past few months, according to two senior U.S. government sources.
The man arrested in Pakistan with documents that sparked this week's increased threat levels is a computer expert who helped Osama bin Laden communicate with his terror network, U.S. government sources told CNN.
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